Started reading some chosen bits after seeing the movie, that expanded a bit, and eventually I more or less read the whole book again. Initially I thought the movie wasn't as bad as I feared it might be, but the more I read, the more the movie started to slide down. Now, I think the movie is simply an unacceptable conversion of the story and will tarnish Tolkien in the minds of the unwashed masses who haven't read the book. "Tolkien? Oh, you mean that swashbuckling adventure with the creatures that scurry up vertical pillars?"

I'm not going to start listing out the flaws of the movie, since I only have 50 MB of space available on this account...Let's just say there are too many to list and any sane human being should read the books and avoid the movie.